Re: extended validation certificates

2009-10-30 Thread EV SSL
as unable to find > more details on extended validation certificates... > > Just Providing you the simple steps on how to generate self signed SSL certificates. 1.Make sure OpenSSL is installed and in your PATH. 2. Run the following command, to create server.key and server.crt files: $ o

Re: extended validation certificates

2008-08-30 Thread Jakob Grießmann
Hi Patrick, > However, it should get you at least started. thanks a lot, that helps me out! Jakob __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing Listopenssl-use

Re: extended validation certificates

2008-08-28 Thread Patrick Patterson
On August 28, 2008 01:54:50 pm Jakob Grießmann wrote: > Hi, > > > It is likely that the documentation will also describe what extensions > > must be included to mark an end-entity certificate as EV. I don't > > know the details. > > okay, I will dig deeper there. :-) Thanks! > > Does anyone has an

Re: extended validation certificates

2008-08-28 Thread Jakob Grießmann
Hi, > It is likely that the documentation will also describe what extensions > must be included to mark an end-entity certificate as EV. I don't > know the details. okay, I will dig deeper there. :-) Thanks! Does anyone has an instruction on how to generate a certificate with the needed OIDs? W

Re: extended validation certificates

2008-08-27 Thread Kyle Hamilton
From what I'm told, Mozilla Firefox must be built with a special build-time option to allow an external text file to contain admin-approved EV roots. There is no specific OID for a policy extension used to identify EV. I honestly don't know how one would make it; there was a related discussion on

Re: extended validation certificates

2008-08-27 Thread Jakob Grießmann
Hi, basically, I want to play around with EVN for documentation and development purposes, and the only way of getting a "cheap" certificate is creating one on my own... so a pointer would be welcome. Thanks Jakob __ OpenSSL Proje

RE: extended validation certificates

2008-08-25 Thread David Schwartz
> thanks for the fast replies! When you want to make your own non-EV CA > recognized by the browser, it's easy, you just have to import your CA > as trusted root, then it works. Isn't there a similar way for EV CAs, > like producing your EV CA and simply adding it to the trusted root of > the brow

Re: extended validation certificates

2008-08-25 Thread Patrick Patterson
On August 25, 2008 11:38:36 am Jakob Grießmann wrote: > Hi there, > > thanks for the fast replies! When you want to make your own non-EV CA > recognized by the browser, it's easy, you just have to import your CA > as trusted root, then it works. Isn't there a similar way for EV CAs, > like producin

Re: extended validation certificates

2008-08-25 Thread Jakob Grießmann
Hi there, thanks for the fast replies! When you want to make your own non-EV CA recognized by the browser, it's easy, you just have to import your CA as trusted root, then it works. Isn't there a similar way for EV CAs, like producing your EV CA and simply adding it to the trusted root of the brow

Re: extended validation certificates

2008-08-25 Thread Mark H. Wood
Well, it sounds like there *is* another, more legally correct way: set up your own CA (easy!) and do what it takes to get it certified by the CA/Browser Forum (should be difficult). Then you'd legally have the privilege of coining the cert.s that you want. I seriously doubt that issuance of self-

Re: extended validation certificates

2008-08-25 Thread Patrick Patterson
to do this for normal certificates, but was unable to find > more details on extended validation certificates... I take it what you are really shooting for is the fancy "make the location bar go green, and display the company name" in a browser. Unfortunately, from my understanding, that&#x

extended validation certificates

2008-08-25 Thread Jakob Grießmann
Hello, does anyone have a howto on how to generate a self-signed extended validation certificate, or on how to set-up my own CA for local use that gives out EVN certificates? I know how to do this for normal certificates, but was unable to find more details on extended validation certificates